Great pieces of cinema will always have their imitators, as they say, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. Without Halloween we wouldn't have Friday the 13th, which started off as an imitation but then took on a life of its own. It is never just enough though to copy something that is popular, it has to [...]

More times than I can count there is a section in films that makes me bored or disinterested. A majority of the time if there is going to be a section that fails and makes the movie unenjoyable, it will almost always be the end. However, there are films where the introduction or the first [...]

Burning Men is definitely its own entity. Sometimes that works in its favor; sometimes it becomes a detriment. But when it comes down to originality alone, the film's innovative qualities are admirably brave. We follow the stories of Ray (Ed Hayter) and Don (Aki Omoshaybi), two young, struggling musicians from South London who find themselves [...]

Transmission, written and directed by Varun Raman and Tom Hancock, is an abstract political short that uses its largely unspoken character dynamics to tell deliver a non-linear narrative about Post-Brexit Britain’s fall to authoritarianism. We open on a TV screen playing a hodgepodge of old commercials and agricultural b-roll to create an atmosphere of commodity [...]